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. 2016 Nov;13(124):20160633. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0633

Figure 7.

Figure 7.

The time evolution of the perpendicular force exerted by a spermatozoon on a wall given its head is adhered with no rotation and the flagellum is beating in a linearly viscoelastic Maxwell fluid, with elastic relaxation time λ. (a) Results for beat IV of figure 2b. (b) Analogous results for beat V.